Comments on: How can I shut off the auto-click feature of the touchpad on my Sony Vaio?

Question: How can I shut off the auto-click feature of the touchpad on my Sony Vaio?

DyRE — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:39:01 -0800

How can I shut off the auto-click feature of the touchpad on my Sony Vaio (model PCG-GRT170, if that helps)?

I'm assuming this is called auto-click. It's not tapping (which is where tapping on the touchpad acts the same as clicking the left button). I can turn tapping off and it still does this. It's a function where if I move the cursor somewhere, the computer reacts as though I've also clicked there, even though I haven't. I can't seem to find a way to disable this in the mouse options. Google turns up some people with similar problems but no real solutions.

By: bwilms

bwilms — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:43:26 -0800

Sony's esupport site for your model turns up a number of updates, including one for the touchpad driver, which supposedly "Resolves multiple issues and enhances functionality."

I don't know if that will help, but it might be a start. Good luck.

By: dpx.mfx

dpx.mfx — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:43:27 -0800

Ahhh, my new Toshiba laptop does this too, and I haven't been able to figure out how to turn it off. It seems like it mostly happens in the corners - if I click in the upper left, it opens the "file" menu. Very irritating. I realize this isn't helpful, but I hope someone else is!

By: tommorris

tommorris — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:27:30 -0800

Is there any general touchpad drivers for Windows which does things like turning the trackpad off while the keyboard is in use (an OS X feature, but so far unreplicable on Windows)?

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:39:09 -0800

On every PC portable I've every owned, there has been a physical button next to the trackpad which disabled it.

For my current laptop (a Compaq) the touchpad driver placed an icon in the tray. Right-clicking that icon brings up a popup menu, and one of the choices is whether to enable "tap to click". That driver is from a company named "Synaptics", who appear to be the OEM source for the touchpad Compaq used.

By: DyRE

DyRE — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:24:29 -0800

bwilms, unfortuantely, shutting off the auto-click function doesn't seem to be one of the 'enhanced' functions. Thanks anyway though. There's plenty of other crap I could stand to update too.

dpx.mfx, this might be the first thing you tried, but have you checked around in Mouse in the Control Panel? My touchpad can do ~~obnoxious~~ 'helpful' stuff like opening menus too but there's a way to disable it under the Functions tab under the Mouse options. Maybe your Toshiba has something similar.